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I agree, America should finally build more nuclear power plants. China is currently building 37 reactors simultaneously [1]. > [1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/513671/number…

»It’s an industrial supply bottleneck and rollout timeline incompatibility rather than a Dr Doom Evil Genius Complex that prevents everyone from deploying solar.« No, it's just phy…

»Don't understand why.« Because you cannot turn a large datacenter with thousands of aggregates, power supplies and so on off and on like a toaster.

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As long as major countries like Germany are keeping their ban on nuclear power, climate change cannot be that urgent.

It’s really only economics, there is simply no relevant market for mechanical cassette players that would justify the investment. I don’t think it’s true that the capabilities to m…

What's even crazier is that someone vibe-coded ia64 emulation support for QEMU: https://github.com/syunnPC/qemu-system-ia64

»If some businesses get killed in the process, so be it.« The problem with this attitude is that the rest of the world often doesn’t have these strict regulations and as result, bu…

You haven’t dealt with German bureaucracy then.

Ireland consumes roughly 40 TWh per year, that’s less than the production of four EPR reactors or two times Hinkley Point C. The country could easily solve its electricity problems…

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Might be because the article doesn’t tell you the whole story.

Well, it’s HN. People love to spread articles that push renewables. In the meantime, France has the cleanest and cheapest electricity among the large countries in Europe.

France is proving every day that load-following is a thing for nuclear reactors. I don’t understand why people keep spreading this nonsense. Just stop it, it’s simply untrue!

A nuclear power plant cannot free all of its energy at once as the fuel enrichment is too low for an exponential excursion of power, i.e. an explosion.

The nearby nuclear power plant produced these 6 GWh every four and a half hours, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and more than 8000 days of the year.

»We're off grid and have 7kw of panels, and 40kwh of 48v lithium batteries, with a generator for backup, which is rarely used since we are frugal with electricity and switch everyt…

I find it hard to believe that WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram have almost the exact same number of users. This seems to be skewed data.

Would you call it free speech if the whole world was able to track your position anywhere in the world 24/7?

> What you should do instead is write all your code so it is little-endian only, as the only relevant big-endian architecture is s390x, and if someone wants to run your code on s39…

Compare the price and carbon density of the French electricity grid with that of California to understand why that rebuttal is justified.

Capacity doesn’t matter, generation does.

»In 10 years it has not just amortised it's costs, it has made me money, and qualifies as a tax right off.« Great, so basically the tax payer is subsidizing your energy consumption…

Yeah, just build a 300 GW transmission line from the US to Europe. It will basically costs nothing.

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